Title: Childhood Valentine
Author: rokubinosukanku
Pairings: Mild Castiel/Dean near the end.
Rating: PG-13 / K+
Words Count: 1.500 something
Spoilers: AU so no.
Summary: St Valentine's Day in the Sioux Fall Kindergarten.
Notes/Warnings: My 2nd submission for a Valentine/Mardi Gras contest in SupernaturalObsessed group in deviantART.
Tuesday, February 14th 2012. Sioux Fall Kindergarten.
"Kids! Can any of you tell me what day today is?" bellows the teacher –Ms. Ellen Harvelle- cheerfully, which resulted in various pitch of voices declaring that today is Tuesday.
"Excellent! You all are so smart." beamed Ms. Ellen, very proud of her pupil. "But there's also something special about today. Can any of you guess what that is?"
"It someone's birthday." shouts Adam.
"There are no vegetables in today's lunch!" squeals Anna.
After a lot of silly childish answers come from her students, Ms. Ellen raises her hand to stop the voices. "There's a lot of interesting answers you got there. But let me tell you, today is special because today is St. Valentine's Day. Do you know what day is that?" Most answered her question negatively.
"It's the day of love. The day when you show people you love how much you love them." explains Ms. Ellen. "Yes, Jo?" calls her after she saw her daughter raised her hand.
"But Mom…" starts Jo which instantly changed to 'Ms. Ellen' after been glared at by her mother. As for a fair rule, Ms. Ellen would state in class that they are teacher and student. No different with the rest of students. So Jo can't expect for Ms. Ellen to acts like she is her mother instead of her teacher, and as such is how Jo has to respects Ms. Ellen. Although if asked, Jo will tell you the only difference of Ms. Ellen act as her teacher in school and as her mother in home is only the title-calling, nothing else.
"I remember," continues Jo, "You told us that we should show our love to the people we love every day. What is so different with today?"
"Because today is the day when we show our love by giving them, dumderudumdum..." she raises a big colorful bag from behind her desk, "...Chocolates!"
"CHOCOLATES!?"
"Gabriel, sit down! Keep calm or you won't get any!" that's sure makes him sit down. But Gabriel still does little bouncing in his chair, impatiently staring at the bag in Ms. Ellen's hand like some eagle's eyes. "Good. Now as you all maybe already knew. All of you are part of the people that I love. Because of that I will give each of you 3 pieces of these chocolate candies."
"Yea!" the class go leap in their chairs full of excitements.
"Now, now, wait, I'm not done." Ms. Ellen once again makes the class go attentive with what she has to say, "To commemorate the St. Valentine's Day, today's assignment is…: From the 3 pieces chocolates that I'll give you, I want you to show your love too and give at least one of it to the people who you most love. Okay?"
"Okaaaay!" Then Ms. Ellen proceeds to do what she said, giving each student of her 3 pieces of chocolates.
-10 minutes later-
Ms. Ellen spent the time to pays attention with what her pupil do with their chocolates, and listening their story to each other of what they will do with their chocolates.
Naturally the first child she put her awareness to is Jo. Her daughter immediately comes to her after she declared 'Free Time'. Jo gives Ms. Ellen one piece of her share of confection then kisses her mother on the cheeks, sweetly whispering "I love you."
With watery eyes, Ms. Ellen kisses back Jo's forehead and answers, "I love you too".
What she couldn't fathom is the next thing that happened after it was when her daughter spring back to her chair, the Adam-boy comes to Jo and give her his piece of chocolate. Jo happily giggled, and gives him her other share too, before she kisses Adam on his cheek too. OH! They will really need to talk when they get home.
She then pays attention to the bestest-girl-friends (that's how they declared themselves) Anna and Ruby whom give each other their piece of candy.
Uriel tries to give his share to Meg, but Meg just kept running away blatantly rejects him. Poor Uriel. Although she has to give credit for Uriel's persistent that keeps chasing Meg to every corner, asking her to take his offering. Poor Meg.
Now, where is Crowley? He's not in the class. Sure he must be bothering The Principle –Mr. Bobby Singer. Does Crowley want to gives his chocolate to The Principle? Ms. Ellen could swear Crowley's idolization to Mr. Bobby is bordering to obsession.
The identical twin Michael and Lucifer are once again bickering to each other. Each declaring that they will never give the other one their share of chocolates. But Ms. Ellen knows, when they think no one looking, each will slips their Valentine Chocolate to the other's bag. Cute yet frustrating.
Alastair and Azazel also have a kiddie fight; both announce that only one of them deserves to give his chocolate to the self-proclaimed-class-queen –Lilith-. Azazel says he is the only one that may give Lilith his chocolate, and Alastair doesn't have the right. Of course, Alastair says the same thing. If only both of the boys realize how much Lilith loves the attention and deliberately goads their childish competition.
Then it comes to Gabriel. Why it didn't come to Ms. Ellen's mind before, that THAT is what Gabriel will do. If only Ms. Ellen will grade this assignment, Gabriel surely will be the only one that going to fail the assignment. He's claiming that the person that he most loves is himself, that's why he will give all his chocolates to himself. Moreover he rounds the class and demands every kid to given their love unto him, in another word, their chocolates.
The last ones are (she would never admit it publicly) two of Ms. Ellen's favorite students: The little angel, Castiel and the sweet boy, Dean Winchester. Dean sits on his chair frowning to his table where his three pieces of candy situated. Ms. Ellen was going to approaches Dean and asks him what's wrong, but Castiel beats her for that. So, she went to eavesdropping them instead.
SPNSPNSPN
"What's wrong Dean?" Castiel asks Dean with a soft voice, but it still success to makes Dean jumps in surprises because he was to submerges in his thought to not realized that Castiel was already stands next to him for quite some times.
"Ah, it's you Cas. I… I just do not know what to do. I have 3 chocolates and I want to give them to the most people I love in this world, and that's means Mom, Sam and Dad, totaled three. The problem is I also want to taste the chocolate. What should I do?" Dean covers his face in his hand, almost crying in his dilemma but was stop when he feels a hand gently land on his shoulder.
Dean looks to his right side directly to Castiel's big blue eyes for some moments. "What about you Cas? Who will you give the chocolate?"
Castiel retracts his hand from Dean's shoulder and grabs a chair so he can sits across Dean. "My most loved persons are Mom and Dad. And I was wondering to give my last chocolate to..," ducking his blushing face, Castiel gazes at Dean from below his eyelashes, "…to you. Will you accept it?" Castiel slides one of his chocolate next to Dean's chocolates pile on the table.
Eye wide, Dean stares at Castiel in surprise, "But Cas, that's also totaled three. What about yourself? Don't you want to taste it?"
"If you're happy, I'll be happy too Dean." Silence from both of the boys, they just stare at each other eyes. "You don't want to accept it?" Castiel's voice breaks with how it fills with worries.
"No! It's not like that. I'll gladly accept it, but..," Dean's sudden giggles surprise Castiel, "I was thinking before you came. Even if only I had another extra chocolate, I still don't have any for myself, because I would give it to you too." Smiling so big, Dean slides the chocolate piece back to Castiel's side.
It's Castiel's turn to eye wide now. Putting his hand on Dean's that still holding the chocolate that he was sliding, Castiel slides it back to Dean's side, "And I'll give it to you again."
Glaring, Dean makes both of his hand upon Castiel's hand to force slide the chocolate again, which Castiel recuperate in the same manner. It keeps repeated for some times.
"For you."
"No, you."
"You."
"Okay, okay" Finally Dean stops it all. "How about if we just snap the chocolate in two and both of us have half of share?" Dean's big smile once again decorates his freckles face.
"That…" A slow big charming relieved smile blooms on Castiel's chubby face. "That would be lovely."
And so Castiel and Dean blissfully share one piece of chocolate together. The Candy and The Memory taste so sweet. It's a Happy Valentine Day in the Sioux Fall Kindergarten indeed.
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